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have a good look at him as he passes. One of the 

 saddest of the accidents which have thus happened 

 was that which befell a very young lady, a daughter 

 of the Rev. Mr Rebsch, the missionary at Kotgarh. 

 She was riding across the tremendous Eogi cliffs, and, 

 though a wooden railing has since been put up at the 

 place, there was nothing between her and the preci- 

 pice, when her pony shied and carried her over to 

 instant death. In another case the victim, a Mr 

 Leith, was on his marriage trip, and his newly mar- 

 ried wife was close beside him, and had just ex- 

 changed horses with him, when, in trying to cure his 

 steed of a habit it had of rubbing against the rock 

 wall, it backed towards the precipice, and its hind 

 feet getting over, both horse and rider were dashed to 

 pieces. This happened between Serahan and Taran- 

 da, near the spot where the road gave way under Sir 

 Alexander Lawrence, a nephew of Lord Lawrence, the 

 then Governor-General. Sir Alexander was riding a 

 heavy Australian horse, and the part of the road which 

 gave way was wooden planking, supported out from 

 the face of the precipice by iron stanchions. I made 

 my coolies throw over a large log of wood where he 

 went down ; and, as it struck the rocks in its fall, it 

 sent out showers of white splinters, so that the solid 

 wood was reduced to half its original size before it 

 reached a resting-place. In the case of the wife of 

 General Brind, that lady was quietly making a sketch 

 on horseback, from the road between Theog and Mut- 



